"I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a……" — Ransom Riggs
"I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less."
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28 Quotes by Ransom Riggs
Ransom Riggs has 28 quotes on this site.
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But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able…
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When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.
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We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.
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Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of these ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now…
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Sometimes it's better not to look back.
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I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to…
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I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.
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Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
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I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.
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There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who…
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If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town…
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Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive…
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
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Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a…
— Richard Sibbes
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I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the…
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What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort,…
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It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your…
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Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
— E. O. Wilson
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Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?
— Henry David Thoreau
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